4.12.2006

Kyrgyz Officials To Curb Partying At State Cost

By Bradley Cook April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister FelixKulov told government officials to stop partying so hard at stateexpense and urged them to kill fewer horses and cows duringcelebrations, Interfax reported, citing a government statement. "Political and administrative officials are advised tocelebrate family events without inviting a lot of people andwithout an overabundance of food and killing of horses and cows,''Kulov wrote in a decree, Interfax reported today. The decree was necessary "to eliminate the artificiallycultivated custom of opulently celebrating national events,'' theRussian news service cited the government statement as saying. Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet state located between China andKazakhstan, has a population of about 5 million. Former PresidentAskar Akayev, the country's first post-Soviet leader, was drivenfrom power by a popular uprising last year. He fled to Moscow.________________________________________